Discusses how to identify and develop plant materials with resistance to insect pests. Covers terminology and categories of resistance, and presents techniques for studying plant resistance. Also gives consideration to potentially resistant material. Examines the molecular biology and genetics of insect resistance in crop plants, and insect genes capable of overcoming resistance to form insect biophytes. The closing chapter presents hitherto unpublished information on the use of transgenic plants with insect resistance and assesses the ways that insect resistant cultivars work with other management techniques to suppress insect populations.

Plant Resistance to Insects: A Fundamental Approach

Science & Math

Smith, C. Michael

Biological Sciences

Wiley-Interscience

In this highly original and scholastically groundbreaking work, psychologist and educator C. Michael Smith explores the world of Shamanism and Jungian psychology by bringing them together in a dialogue: Jung's concepts are examined shamanically and shamanic concepts are examined from a Jungian perspective. Shamanism is considered to be a complex of practices of a magico-religious character concerned primarily with psychospiritual and psychosomatic healing.Addressing the need for a systematic dialogue between the psychology of Jung and Shamanism, Smith first provides an overview of the basic elements of classic Shamanism, drawing from the history of religions and cultural and medical anthropology. Then he examines Jung's life and development in terms of shamanic themes and parallels, and how Jung arrived at these psychological ideas through active imagination and other techniques. Finally, the author reflects on the clinical and cultural implications of this study on psychotherapy and spirituality today.

Jung and Shamanism in Dialogue: Retrieving the Soul/Retrieving the Sacred (Jung and Spirituality)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Paulist Pr

"Drawing on historical, cross-cultural and clinical data, Psychotherapy and the Sacred explores the complex relations between psychotherapy and human religious experience. The author examines the factors contributing to the loss of the sacred in the western assumptive world and considers the efforts of Rudolf Otto, Gerhardus Van der Leeuw, and Mircea Eliade to retrieve a sense of the sacred. He discusses the manifestation of the sacred in transformative ritual and considers four examples of sacred psychotherapeutics in traditional and premodern culture and presents a case from his own practice in which he utilizes religious resources in treating psychosis." "In the final portion of the volume, the author draws on the theoretical work of Alfred North Whitehead to reinterpret the work of Carl Jung in order to develop an interpretation of the use of religious resources in psychotherapy which affirms the sui generis character of religious experience." "The richness and scope of this work challenges mental health professionals to rethink both their theoretical assumptions and their mode of practice."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Psychotherapy and the sacred: Religious experience and religious resources in psychotherapy (Studies in religion, society and personality)

Center for the Scientific Study of Religion

"Looking back, I realize just how much I feared Dickie Hellerman on the morning I shot and killed him out in the backwoods of my parents' property." From that jarring opening line, "Defending My Life: Surviving a Bully's Torture" is the compelling journey of an innocent young man who faces repeated encounters with a bully. Based on true events, the story is told by Justin Bailey who recounts the traumatic occurrences that ultimately drove him to the horrific killing and its consequences. Justin is a seemingly carefree junior in high school where he is in the drama club and on the wrestling team. His free time is spent with friends and dreaming of pretty girls. Yet his life becomes increasingly complex as he encounters the unpredictable and volatile behavior of the problem-drinking bully. Along the way, Justin meets Maria, the gorgeous girl who becomes his first love, but trouble escalates when Justin's antagonist is attracted to her as well. "Defending My Life: Surviving a Bully's Torture" is an honest account of a maturing 17-year-old facing life, love, overwhelming fears and extreme guilt. He yearns for a "normal" existence following the incident but discovers that such a wish will only be achieved through tremendous mental struggles.

Defending My Life: Surviving a Bully's Torture

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Earnest Publishing House LLC

This book synthesizes new information about the environmental advantages of plant resistance, transgenic resistance, the molecular bases of resistance, and the use of molecular markers to map resistance genes. Readers are presented in-depth descriptions of techniques to quantify resistance, factors affecting resistance expression, and the deployment of resistance genes. New information about gene-for-gene interactions between resistant plants and arthropod biotypes is discussed along with the recent examples of using arthropod resistant plants in integrated pest management systems.

Plant Resistance to Arthropods: Molecular and Conventional Approaches

Springer

In this highly original study, C. Michael Smith draws on phenomenological resources and hermeneutic dialogue to explore the affinities and distinctions between shamanism and Jungian psychology, both rooted ultimately in a heart-centered way if life, and both having highly intricate maps of the human psychic interiors. As the reader adventures through this book he or she will encounter shamanic initiation, dismemberments, disassociation, grief, despair, and soul loss, the healing power of ritual, ecstasy and other altered states. The book explores many rich topics including the role of talismans and amulets, the various levels of the collective unconscious, the archetypal and imaginable perspectives on such phenomena, and implications for psychotherapeutic practice today. In the new preface, the author argues that in the end "It isn't the fascinating and powerful techniques that are the essential thing, but the person inside, its capacity to live from the heart n Earth-honoring and Nature- attuning ways that is the essential center of the Jung/shamanism interface." In Jung and Shamanism in Dialogue, C. Michael Smith has written a "must have" classic for all students of shamanism and Jungian psychology. Thorough, clear and authoritative, Smith writes from first-hand perspective, drawing on his own depth experiences in studying and teaching shamanism and Jungian psychology for decades. As in his previous book, Psychotherapy and the Sacred, he is psychological and spiritual, phenomenological and historical in his unique perspective. Jung was often described as a "shaman" by those who knew him well, but few have had the courage to openly make this claim, and none has presented the case as thoroughly as Smith has. This new preface to this second edition adds a richness of wisdom worth the price of the book. -Tess Castleman, Training Analyst, The C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich

Jung and Shamanism in Dialogue: Retrieving the Soul / Retrieving the Sacred

Business & Money

Trafford

The Ancients already knew the therapeutic potential of the family links between generations that we rediscover in modern transgenerational analysis. Far from being a new fashion, the recognition of transgenerational processes dates back to the first shamanic type of communities. Their methods to cure "The Ancestor Syndrome" offer to contemporary therapies essential historical references and valuable teachings. Transgenerational integration brings a welcome middle ground for exchanges between traditional, shamanic and actual therapeutic approaches. This new field nourishes the rooting of contemporary practices as well as the renewal of ancestral wisdom. With the contribution of specialists from different backgrounds, this collective book presents a wide spectrum of perspectives to bridge traditional and modern knowledges.

Shamanism, Ancestors and Transgenerational Integration

Douville, Olivier

Horowitz, Élisabeth

Gaillard, Thierry

Ramaut, Pierre

Eshowsky, Myron

Miller, Iona

Self-Help

Ecodition

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